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Friday, November 21, 2008
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Layer 3, not Layer 2

Actually, ARP is a Layer 3 protocol. Although ARP packets are carried inside broadcast Ethernet frames (frames whose addresses are all ones), ARP is handled by the computer's Layer 3 Processes. The ARP cache is a list of MAC layer - Network layer pairs.

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